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    shooters edge

    has any one herd of these scopes. I just picked up a used one. it has the letters on the parallax cap [se] 3.5-10x50 illuminated reticle green and red. on bottom of eye piece it is printed with[0612] se5082 any help would be appreciated . looking for user Manuel. and hope its not in Chinese...
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    digital scale

    good morning . I have a horndy lock and load digital powder measure. when I through a charge .then remove the pan the powder jumps out of the trickle tube and on to the Pantene. found that my 27.0 charge was really 26.0. had a hard time keeping the 27.0 charge . if I brush off the powder from...
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    pink brass

    thank you for all the posts . decided last night to tumble with ss pins again . 1/2 teaspoon of lemi shine and dawn dish soap. 2-1/2 hours over night and this morning still some pink could be seen. so I ran it for another 3 hours while I am at work see tonight what it really looks like when I...
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    pink brass

    good morning . I have some 223 brass that I picked up where some people like to shoot . about 150 pieces . washed them out thoroughly to make sure crud was gone de primed wet tumble with ss pins lemi shine ,dawn dish soap 2hours tumble time.vibrate tumble 2hours with walnut media and nu finish...
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    pws ar-10

    no it was not able to chamber the round .this is a piston driven gun by pws. reading on line and like you said about keeping he bolt carrier wet oiled up . made me start to think that after I got one round fired out of the 10. I used a bore snake to swab out the barrel . do you think that the...
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    pws ar-10

    hey folks. I bought a ar-10 by pws last march and I just got to shoot it yesterday. but I am having a problem this is a new gun. for rounds into the magazine. pull the charging handle back and let it go . put on fire, pull the trigger and gun does not fire. the bolt carrier will not go far...
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    223 brass

    no the welding part was just to give a visualization. like spatter from welding. leaving a crater in the shoulder area . what you have shown is discoloration from annealing . I do beleavee
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    223 brass

    bought 100 new pieces of Winchester /Remington 223 brass .went to trim them to control length for crimping .first one out of the bag had damage to the neck . looked like it was melted . went through the rest and found the same melt look on the shoulder. like small dent or a pit like in welding ...
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    loging on

    just used 3 out of my 5 log on attempts . until I found out its the scripts running in the back ground these little commercials for a refrigerator . by clicking on the add then pausing it was able to log on . any body else have this problem
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    bullets / oal

    no they come from the factory that way. not all of them . the reason I posted. was that every time I would Google on different ways of using the comparator. it would come up with seating to the lands or just off them by 20/30 thousands. I am not sure about the seating stem but I be leave that it...
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    bullets / oal

    I have read the Berger article and it makes sense . but what I am after is consistency in my bullet seating depth . it is hard with the bullets all smashed at the end . I do realize that once you set your depth they all should be the same because the die is pushing on the ogive and not the tip ...
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    primary weapons system

    I bought the ar-10 and the ar-15 expensive at least to say. any opinions on them they are new and had them for about three months now. have not shot them been very busy with sick wife.
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    bullets / oal

    I know why they give a over all length for cartridges. but why not on bullets . I made my own comparator for seating my bullets to the oal . but to obtain the over all base to the ogive I first have to find a bullet that's not deformed at the tip or the meplat. then set to the over all length in...
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